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ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
In today’s Aerospace industry, space-giant organizations use ill-suited rovers to map and inspect the expanse of Mars. In general, rovers being used are built with the traditional design of…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Bangladesh has a serious problem: 20 million in the country drink water well above the arsenic contamination standard. Phytoremediation can be effective in removing heavy metals from water,…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Diseases that cause visually abnormal cells affect millions of individuals around the world. In developing countries, these diseases are traditionally diagnosed by having a trained scientist…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
In recent years, congestion in the global airspace has escalated at an exponential rate, increasing the probability of an air collision. Furthermore, many companies plan to deploy autonomous…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project evaluates multiple machine learning (ML) algorithms to determine optimal accuracy in detecting breast cancer. It also analyzes the effect of applying Principal Component Analysi…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Ocean acidification is the increase in acidity of ocean waters due to the absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere. This negatively impacts many marine organisms, especially those that build ca…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Visual impairment is a major global health problem. In 2017, WHO estimated that there were 253 million people worldwide with this ailment. According to the journal of the American Medical As…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
This work focused on applying existing cell phone technology as a cost effective innovative tool for wound measurements. Precise wound measurements are utilized for medical records, document…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) results in deterioration of dopaminergic cells in the brain. The Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC), areas associated with facial expresion recognition, suffer…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
To study materials at the molecule and nano-scale, modern synchrotrons produced up to 4 Terabytes of x-scattering image data per day. This massive amount of data creates a daunting big data…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
This study aims to improve the concrete paving blocks constructed to solve problems for senior individuals in the community. The study contains three main experiments. The first dealt with p…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
The goal of this research was to improve the energy produced by a flexible solar cell. A focus was placed on using the ability of the flexible solar cell to conform to surfaces to see if the…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
During a prolonged time execution, deep recurrent neural networks suffer from the so-called \textit{long-term dependency problem} due to their recurrent connection. Although Long Short-Term…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Developing cost-efficient methods to store renewable energy is an essential part of satisfying the growing worldwide energy demands. The evolution of hydrogen from water splitting driven by…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
One of the biggest problems in both developing and developed nations is the lack of clean water, which induces disease and poverty in communities globally. Mobile applications carry immense…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
My family owns a beef cattle farm and I am looking forward to working in the agriculture industry, especially cattle. The purpose of this study is to determine whether using a heat protector…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
Currently, it’s common to use fixing cables to prevent wave power generators being swept away. These fixing cables are not only ten times more expensive than wave power generators themselves…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Third Award
The Brachistochrone Problem contemplates the shape of the path between two points, on the same vertical plane, such that a bead can slide down, with no friction and only affected by gravity,…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Stingless bees (SB), Tetragonula fuscobalteata, are the recommended species for bee culturing as they are the most important pollinators of fruit crops during blooming. According to the repr…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if growing Chlorella kessleri algae in water treated by Panicum hemitomon (maidencane) increases the amount of lipids, which can be extracted f…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
General theme of the project is exploration of indenyl rhodium complexes. The relevance of this study is that organometallic complexes are widely used in organic synthesis as catalysts. For…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The purpose of the project is to build an effective method of navigation for blind people in indoor areas. GPS isn’t reliable indoor due to the distortion of signals through buildings. Other…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The development of this work was carried out in the forests of Panama in the community of Ustupu to determine the biodiversity of insects that are attracted with colorful dishes and in this…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Second Award
A computer cursor is usually being controlled by using a keyboard and in most cases by a computer mouse in addition. For presentation purposes people like to use a wireless "presenter device…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Low birth weight (LBW) offspring have a high risk of developing cardiovascular and renal diseases such as chronic kidney disease and hypertension, which have no preventative measures or cure…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Chronic inflammation can lead to the buildup of proinflammatory cytokines and result in a plethora of diseases from arthritis to asthma. This has led to a need for safe and natural anti-infl…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
HER2 is a membrane bound protein receptor for cell proliferation. When present in excess, the cell divides uncontrollable and leads to cancer. This type of cancer is very prone to recurrence…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
The purpose of our project is to utilize the potential energy stored in residential water tanks and convert it into electrical energy using a network of small turbines installed in water pip…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Ovarian cancer (OVC) is one of the leading causes of death in women in the US. With only a 15% survival rate in the late stages, a fast and accessible method of OVC biomarker detection in hu…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mangrove forest provides unique ecosystem and nursery for aquatic animals, along with sediment trapping and coastal erosion prevention. Since deforestation has been a major problem for mangr…